Entropy-based measure of uncertainty in past lifetime distributions

Journal of Applied Probability

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 434-440

  Di Crescenzo, Antonio ^a   Longobardi, Maria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

Author keywords

DRFR property; Monotonic transformation; Residual lifetime; Reversed hazard function

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036592929     PISSN: 00219002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1239/jap/1025131441     Document Type: Article

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